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that mint color and general look of the uniforms definitely suggests it, although I think it's a poorly done send up/mash up of magical girl anime in general. I didn't really watch the preview, just skimmed it a bit. I have to say, I really, really hate that style. It reminds of those cheap, badly done "How to Draw" books. The sort of crude, Christopher Hart style of manga.

The first time you looked at her curves you were hookedAnd the glances you took, took hold of you and demanded that you stayAnd sunk in their teeth, bit your heart and releasedSuch a charge that you need another touch, another taste, another fix

Wow this looks terrible. I can't even describe how much i detest this. I though American animation had reached the absolute lowest level of fanservice and apathy but wow this takes it to a level worse then anime with solely sexual content or Drawn Together. I know is just a preview but come on, there's nothing at all to make me want to watch more.

Hm. If anything, it sort of looks like a love letter to the shoujo genre to me. Between goatee'd Touga, color-swapped Anthy, the Sailor Moon transformation sequence, it looks like whoever's behind the show actually like shoujo a lot.It definitely doesn't look as crude or lowbrow as Drawn Together to me, and I didn't really feel like it was making fun of the genre in a derogatory way.

I have no objection to the show beyond goatee'd Touga. That is Not Okay.

Edit for not comically-exaggerated opinion:

No, I didn't think it was making fun of the genre, and definitely there are bits and pieces of other shows in there as well, but the Anthy-hairdo on that girl, and the uniform GoaTouga is wearing strike me as definite references to SKU. Then again, I don't watch anime a lot, so I wouldn't know if these showed up elsewhere in the genre....

I get the deliberate bad animation, very LOL CLEVER, but if you're going to pull crap like that ironically, your dialogue better be funnier than this is.

As far as reference to KLK, I'm halfway through the show, and to be totally honest I fail to see any real referencing to SKU at all. It shares a few themes, sure, but those are all themes that are hardly groundbreaking from SKU, either. Isolated schools with strict student hierarchies and organized violence?

Akio, you have nice turns of phrase, but your points aren't clear and you have no textual support. I can't give this a passing grade. ~ Professor Arisa Konno, Eng 1001 (Freshman Literature and Composition)

I can see the SKU similarities, but I think it borrows over much from Puni Puni Poemi, making it a parody of a parody. Still, looks pretty interesting to me. Won't mind having more of a look when the first ep comes out.

dirufacade wrote:

Kill La Kill

Onsenmark wrote:

KILL LA KILL

Kita=Yisabell wrote:

Kill La Kill

Giovanna wrote:

KLK

...I think it's pretty clear where my priorities are at. >.>

"My blood is steel, my heart is glass... I have emerged unvanquished from many battles... Never have I been put to flight, but neither have I stood victorious... This bearer stands here alone, forging steel atop a hill of blades... for that reason, my life has never needed meaning. My body has always...

Giovanna wrote:

As far as reference to KLK, I'm halfway through the show, and to be totally honest I fail to see any real referencing to SKU at all. It shares a few themes, sure, but those are all themes that are hardly groundbreaking from SKU, either. Isolated schools with strict student hierarchies and organized violence?

The only thing that reminded me of SKU specifically, rather than generic magic girl vs ridiculously powerful student council anime, was genki girl Mako. In one of the later episodes Mako turns evil and Ryuuko has to reluctantly duel her, and in another Mako gives Ryuuko some slap therapy. Her earnest friendship is adorable.

MissMocha wrote:

... It reminds of those cheap, badly done "How to Draw" books. The sort of crude, Christopher Hart style of manga.

Not all of his books look like that, only some of them.

"But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail." ~ Lady Macbeth; Macbeth - Act One, Scene 7"Crying is such hypocrisy. How can happiness cause the same reaction as sadness? Does pleasure share the same edge of the blade of life as pain?" - What His Crimson Eyes Believe in: Ch. 2

Just started watching Kill la Kill a month ago and the literal first thought i had was, "Is this just Utena with a new skin?" (maybe more skin?) I dont watch many shows in the same genre as SKU, so i could be missing the similarities everyone mentioned before... but this video definitely was Utena with some KLK thrown in there.

GoaTouga is what their assumption for what he'd grow up to be like...? thats just awkward and weird. . .

Blonde chick is definitely Anthy.

Should compile a list of all the anime that has a student council hierarchy that you have to fight through to win the game...

Thisssssssss was the last episode i watched and i said the exact same thing. Man, so many parallels for me. THE SMART NERD GUY HAS BLUE HAIR. Seriously, can someone get a hold of the creators... I need to know if these are head nods to Utena or not. That car. cmon. cmon. this whole show cmonnnnn.